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USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933.It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes, which could be launched and recovered while it was in flight.
U.S. Navy blimp K-111 crashes on Santa Catalina Island, California, killing seven of her ten crewmen. 7 5 November 1944 U.S. Navy blimp K-34 crashes off the coast of the State of Georgia, killing two of eleven crewmen. 2 3 May 1945 A Navy blimp's fuel tanks explode over Santa Ana, California killing eight of the crew of nine. 8 29 January 1947
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The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy.These blimps were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung under the envelope.
The blimp is back – and this time, it’s tiny. Tom Page, CNN. October 13, 2023 at 3:49 AM. You’d be forgiven for thinking the resurgence of airships and blimps was a load of hot air.
The largest airship in the world took its first step toward coming to Akron with a successful first test flight in Silicon Valley. ... bigger than Goodyear blimp, has first test flight before ...
On June 12, 2011, an American Blimp A-60+, operated by Lightship Europe, caught fire during landing at Reichelsheim, after the main gear broke off it made the airship hit the ground, at the impact started a fuel leak, that eventually lead to a fire. The flight was an advertisement flight with passengers, of the 4 on board the pilot died.
As Akron prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2025, we came up with a list of random facts that might help out-of-towners better understand us. It probably won’t work, but at least we ...